For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

Whether or not we're alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent study, led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge, suggests the answer might ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore a fascinating proposition about ...